Re: [Internet Policy] Why the World Must Resist Calls to Undermine the Internet

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Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    > Today it is not the 'centralization' of the Web that is the real issue,
    > it is the fact that a handful of individuals control the voting shares
    > in the companies that set the agenda through curation of the dominant
    > social media feeds. That is the power that must be challenged if the
    > Internet is going to fulfill its promise as a technology of freedom.

I agree that this is the challenge.

I wish that I could pay a fee and get access to the social media APIs and to
run my own algorithms (or hire some else's directly).  Then I realize that in
being able/willing to pay that fee, that I myself am invoking a privilege
that not everyone might have.

--
Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works
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